The president of the Republican Party responds after protesters are thrown from the USAID expenses hearing

A group of protesters tried to derail a Usaid audience in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives on Thursday, demanding that the administration of President Donald Trump restore the aid financing.

President of the Brian Mast Committee, R-FLA. He made fun of the protesters for being behind the times after they interrupted the statements of opening the witnesses before the committee.

“Pepfar saves lives. Restoring the financing of AIDS now”, the protesters sang when they were forced to leave the camera.

“I suppose that these guys do not look at the news. They did not realize that preparing was one of the many programs that proved to be life, so that the Financing was restored “ Mast said. “It’s better for someone to give them a link A, I don’t know, maybe Fox News or something.”

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President Brain Mast suggested that protesters should read more news articles. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg through Getty Images)

Pepfar is a global aid program in AIDS that has been accredited by saving more than 20 million lives since it was created under President George W. Bush.

The program received an exemption from the Trump administration to continue its work despite the broader financing freezing that impacts the help programs of the USAID and the State Department.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has also created a broader exemption for “medicine to save lives, medical services, food, refuge and subsistence assistance, as well as reasonable supplies and administrative costs as necessary to provide such assistance”, ” , Republicans of the congress scored in a memorandum.

The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, gave an exemption to the freezing of funds for programs that are “saving life”, among other things. (Photo AP/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

However, Republicans have eliminated the wider collapse spending in USAID and the State Department.

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The memorando also highlighted financing programs that include “$ 39,652 to organize seminars at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in gender identity and racial equality through the State Department “and” $ 425,622 to help Indonesian coffee companies to be more friendly to climate and gender through USAID “.

USAID has been bent in the State Department. (Getty images)

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Other priorities listed included “$ 14 million in cash coupons for migrants on the southern border through the State Department”, “$ 446,700 to promote the expansion of atheism in Nepal through the State Department” and “$ 32,000 for a LGBTQ center comic in Peru.